Saturday, June 27, 2009

Successful Immigrants

This is what I wish leftist social justice was for: Small U.S. businesses thrive with Ethiopian woman's help -CNN.com

Instead, The New Left, circa late 1960's to now, would want these immigrants to NOT assimilate into a capitalist society, and try convince the immigrants that their pre-colonial era cultural heritage is the more valuable and to hold onto it.

Of course a rational approach, and the one the people in this story could very likely be doing, is to assimilate into and master capitalism while retaining a sense of unique cultural heritage.

It is the New Left that draws a disabling line in the sand, in which cultural and personal evolution and adaptation are a dirty sin much like St Augustine saw women.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Disruptive Tech

I wished I had articulated this while enrolled in the Whole Systems Design Program at Antioch. It would have made clear I was not on board with their social-justice-first orthodoxy.

"I believe in innovation that makes both liberals and conservatives uncomfortable and forced to alter lifestyles and vocations, to get their food in new ways or starve."

Thursday, June 4, 2009